The 33nd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. 9-11 March 2006, Texas State University. For more information, refer to the list of SAAP contacts: http://www.american-philosophy.org/contact.htm
The 80th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association. 22-26 March 2006, Portland Hilton, Portland, Oregon.
Colloquium on Pragmatism. Speakers: Juan Ferret, "The Metaphysics of Pragmatism and Radical Empiricism"; Mark Sanders, "Rorty's Hope for Philosophy".
William James Society. Topics: William James's Ethics. Speakers: Wesley Cooper, "Cerebralism and Voluntarism in James Will-to-Believe Doctrine"; Henry Jackman, "James, Objectivity, and Ethical Truth"; Todd Lekan, "Strenuous Moral Living".
The First Annual Atlantic Coast Pragmatist Meeting. 1-2 April 2006, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. CALL FOR PAPERS. Papers not exceeding 3000 words on pragmatism are welcomed. There will be a Great Text Discussion: Charles Sanders Peirce, “A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God,” led by Peter W. Ochs, Edgar M. Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies, University of Virginia. Deadline: January 31, 2006 Please send papers and questions about the meeting to Jacob Goodson at Goodson@Virginia.edu
Josiah Royce on Ethics and Community. The Sixth Annual Donald G. Wester Conference. April 7-8, 2006, at Oklahoma City University (Friday evening), and at the Sheraton Hotel in the Bricktown district of Oklahoma City (Saturday). For more information, click on the above link or contact John Shook at 405-744-9231 or jshook@pragmatism.org
American Philosophy in the 21st Century: Classic Foundations and Contemporary Solutions. A graduate student conference on 22 April 2006, Buffalo, New York. Sponsored by The University at Buffalo Graduate Philosophical Association and The Charles S. Peirce Professorship. Keynote Address by Joseph Margolis (Temple University). Contact Joseph Palencik at Palencik@buffalo.edu.
The 104th Annual Meeting of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association. 26-29 April 2006, Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, Illinois.
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Topic: Origins of C.S. Peirce's Philosophy of Religion. Speakers: Felicia Kruse, “Peirce, God, and the ‘Transcendentalist Virus’”; David O’Hara, “‘Playing on the way to Oregon’: Peirce’s N.A. in light of Thoreau’s ‘Walking’”; Stacey Ake, “When God Does Roll Dice: Finitude and Natural Evil in the Thought of C. S. Peirce”; Douglas Anderson, “Peircean Faith?”; Michael Raposa, “Not by Design: Some Remarks concerning the Logic of Peirce's Neglected Argument”
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Topic: John Dewey's Educational Philosophy and Its Critics. Speakers: Matthew Flamm, "Education, Humanism, and the Highbrow: Dewey versus Babbitt"; Victor Kestenbaum, "Pragmatism and Spiritual Disorder"
William James Society. Speakers: S. Nassir Ghaemi, "William James and the Psychology of Religious Experience"; Jacob Lynn Goodson, "William James on the Doctrine of Transubstantiation"; Roger Ward, "Jamesean Conversion"
Personalist Discussion Group and the Society for the Study of Process Philosophy. Speakers: William Myers, “Why Process Philosophers Need John Dewey”; Joe Frank Jones III.
International Institute for Field-Being. Topic: John Dewey's Process Philosophy. Speakers: David White, “Art, Experience and the Common Faith of Field-Being”; Casey Haskins, “The Disunified Field of Cultural Inquiry”; William Myers, “John Dewey’s Metaphysics of Moral Experience”
Varieties of Psychological Functions of Religion: 100 Years after the First Translation in French of the Varieties of William James. 12-13 May 2006, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland. Contact: Pierre-Yves Brandt, Décanat théologie, Université de Lausanne, Quartier Unil-Dorigny, BFSH 2 (bureau 5014), 1015 Lausanne. Tél. 021 692 2707. Email: Pierre-Yves.Brandt@unil.ch
Pragmatism - Philosophy of the Future? 15-17 June 2006, Institut für Philosophie, Technischen Universität Darmstadt, German. Speakers include: Ludwig Nagl (Universität Wien), Tom Burke (University of South Carolina), Michael Hampe (ETH Zürich), Simon Critchley (New School University), Antje Gimmler (Universität Aalborg), Uwe Wirth (Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin). Conference Program. Contact the organizers: Andreas Hetzel, Jens Kertscher, Marc Rölli (TU Darmstadt, Institut für Philosophie), email: roelli@phil.tu-darmstadt.de
Summer Institute in American Philosophy 2006
. 10-15 July 2006, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. Sponsored by the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, and the Center for Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
Prospects and Limits of Democracy in a European Future. A workshop at the 10th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas. 24-29 July 2006 at the University of Malta. Chairs: Lyubov Bugaeva and John Ryder. THEME: Democracy as Dewey understood it looks beyond boundaries, but so too do non-democratic, even totalitarian, states. The question then is: When democracy leaves its domestic sphere and enters the sphere of international politics, being “brought to”, exported or imposed on “non-democratic” nations, either as a governmental system or as a way of life, does it lose its democratic nature? The deadline for submitting your abstract (150-200 words) to a workshop is 1 April 2006. For more information contact Lyubov Bugaeva (Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia) at ljubov.bugaeva@sbg.ac.at OR John Ryder (SUNY Office of International Programs) at john.ryder@suny.edu
The Philosophy of Pragmatism: Religious Premises, Moral Issues and Historical Impact. Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. 28-29 September 2006. Faculties of Babes-Bolyai University- Faculty of European Studies; Faculty of History and Philosophy; Faculty of Reformed Theology- announce the first call for papers for the international conference The Philosophy of Pragmatism: Religious Premises, Moral Issues and Historical Impact. You are cordially invited to submit the title of your presentation, along with a 100-word abstract, by 1 February 2006. We recommend the inclusion of the presentations in one of the following sections of the conference: Options of the Philosophy of Pragmatism; Religious premises of Pragmatism; Moral and civic components of Pragmatism; The historical impact of Pragmatism. Details about the date and the conference program, along with the registration form, can be found on the conference website www.euro.ubbcluj.ro/conferenceSeptember2006. Contact: Prof. Andrei Marga, president.AM@staff.ubbcluj.ro
9th International Meeting on Pragmatism. Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo – Brazil, November 2006. For more information contact: Prof. Dr. Ivo Assad Ibri.
The 103rd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. 27-30 December 2006, Marriott Wardman Hotel in Washington, D.C.
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Topic: The Correspondence of John Dewey: A Celebration. Speakers: Larry Hickman, “‘Laboring with a Big Freight, Towards the Light’: Dewey’s Early Years”; Michael Eldridge, “The Little-Known and Often-Misunderstood Dewey—Revealed”; John Shook, “Dewey’s Involvement in the Defense of Civil Liberties During the 1930s and 1940s”; John McDermott, “Reading from the Letters of John Dewey: An Affectionate Mosaic”
William James Society. Topic: William James and Literature. Speakers: Patrick Dooley, "William James's 'Specious Present' and Willa Cather's Phenomenology of Memory"; Joan Richardson, "William James's Feeling 'Of If.'"; Peter Hare, "William James, Literary Imagination, and Epistemology"
Charles S. Peirce Society. Presidential Address: Joseph Brent. Speaker: Winner of the 2006 Essay Contest
Dewey Lecture. Speaker: Richard Bernstein